ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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will sing the song of its own species, but needs practice
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will instinctively sing the song of its species perfectly
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will sing other songs as well as its own
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will be confused and not master any song
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the best known examples of classical conditioning may be Pavlov’s experiments on domestic dogs. Russian behaviorist Ivan Pavlov noticed that the smell of meat made his dogs drool. He began to ring a bell just before introducing the meat.
Detailed explanation-2: -Instinct, imprinting, conditioning, and imitation are the four types of animal behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -animal’s behavior, they can now formulate a hypothesis. For example: “I’ve noticed that the squirrel seems to spend most of its time resting. My hypothesis is ‘Squirrels spend most of the time resting during this time of day. ‘”
Detailed explanation-4: -Before class, write this list of ten types on animal behaviors on the board or on an overhead for projection: Sexual, Maternal, Communicative, Social, Feeding, Eliminative, Shelter seeking, Investigative, Allelomimetic and Maladaptive.